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Caribbean-Latin America
Tamaulipas: Nine Dead Bad Guys in Nuevo Laredo --UPDATED
2010-07-17
Google Translate with a hat tip to Blog del Narco for additional details and photos links.

The Overseas Security Advisory Council has released information about this ongoing battle

SEDENA just announced the revised toll to nine gang members and two civilians dead.
Nine dead armed suspects, two civilians and one dead Mexican soldier are the toll in firefights between Mexican security forces and apparent members of the criminal gang Los Zetas in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas Thursday, according to Mexican press and other reports.

Reports are that Friday armed suspects hijacked heavy vehicles and placed blockades in various parts of the city, and that the blocks remain at the current time.

Thursday afternoon, a Mexican Army patrol, part of the 8th Milittary Zone, was fired on by armed suspects in the Villa de San Miguel district of Nuevo Laredo. The resulting exchange totalled four dead unidentified gang members and one dead soldier. The Army reported the seizure of a vehicle and several weapons and munitions.

Mexican Federal agents chased a Mercury sedan Thursday travelling along the Anahuac-Nuevo Laredo in the El Campanario district. The vehicle crashed and two suspects were arrested, Agents seized a fragmentary grenade, a package of marijuana and munitions.

On Friday, news released by the US Consulate in Nuevo Laredo and others through Twitter was several avenues in Nuevo Laredo were blocked by hijacked vehicles and that Mexican Federal authorities were refusing to approach the blockades.

The blockades were initiated by Los Zetas in an apparent successful effort to cover their escape from the city.

Reports released by state authorities say that a total of 21 civilians have been hurt in the violence.
Posted by:badanov

#6  #4 - $10 mil at $20,000 per vehicle is only 500 vehicles. My guess is the total amount is much, much higher.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2010-07-17 17:19  

#5  Nearly every vehicle seized in the various busts in northern Mexico are stolen. It's big business as far as I can tell.
Posted by: badanov   2010-07-17 17:14  

#4  They're not smuggling the cars into Mexico, 'moose. They steal 'em from wherever they can, and drive them to Mexico. My niece's husband works for a maintenance shop up in Loveland. They get all the stolen car reports, so they can be on the lookout for someone trying to do something shady. The cars are usually stolen in Denver or the surrounding area, then driven south on I-25 to El Paso. From there, they either cross the Rio Grande along some deserted stretch, or across the desert and across the border. The stolen vehicles are usually in Mexico within 24 hours, sometimes in as little as twelve. Similar thefts take place in Albuquerque, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Tucson, and southern California. Apparently it's a $10 million a year problem.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2010-07-17 17:02  

#3  Proving that America needs strict car control, to prevent the smuggling of cars to drug gangs in Mexico.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-07-17 10:21  

#2  agents chased a Mercury sedan

It's the one with the slightly upscale interior.
Posted by: Shipman   2010-07-17 10:04  

#1  Detailed help for the Mexican government can be found in Hitler's Bandit Hunters: (Blood, Philip; The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe; Potomac Books [Assoc.of the U.S.Army], 400 pg., 2008):)) BTW: a great read...
Posted by: borgboy   2010-07-17 00:52  

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